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CREATING A PLAYLIST OF EXCERPTS THAT INCLUDE MENTIONS OF KEYWORDS FROM AUDIO RECORDINGS FOR PLAYBACK BY A MEDIA PLAYER

Granted: May 20, 2021
Application Number: 20210149953
Implementations are described for creating a playlist of excerpts from audio recordings. In one implementation, a selection of a first audio recording for playback by a media player, a selection that identifies a first keyword of interest, and a selection of a user interface element in the media player, are accepted from a user. Data that identifies a first excerpt, from the first audio recording, that includes a mention of the first keyword of interest, is added to a playlist. A…

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING DATA OF ACTIONS

Granted: May 13, 2021
Application Number: 20210144250
Described herein is a system and method for capturing data associated with actions attempted by an automated agent. The system described herein captures data associated with the actions attempted by an automated agent during the messaging session between an automated agent and the user and present a summary of the actions in a messaging platform. In an embodiment, the automated agent uploads data associated with actions attempted during the messaging session to a server. The server…

COMPUTING SYSTEM PERMISSION ADMINISTRATION ENGINE

Granted: May 13, 2021
Application Number: 20210144144
A plurality of permissions associated with the on-demand computing services environment may be identified. Each of the permissions may identify a respective one or more actions permitted to be performed within the on-demand computing services environment. Each of the permissions may be granted to a respective one or more user accounts within the on-demand computing services environment. A degree of overlap between a first group of the user accounts granted a first one of the permissions…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROPAGATING MODIFICATIONS IN FLOWS

Granted: May 13, 2021
Application Number: 20210141783
Described herein is a system and method for propagating modifications in flows. In an embodiment, a central system activates a master process (e.g., master flow), including a sub-process (e.g., sub-flow) and a pre-programmed object (e.g., component). The master process is configured to execute a task using the sub-process and pre-programmed object. The central system initializes a variable corresponding to the master process. The central system further identifies a metadata object using…

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE REPLICATION

Granted: May 13, 2021
Application Number: 20210141770
A request may be received to relocate source data within a distributed database system arranged in a hierarchy composed of a plurality of levels. The plurality of levels may include a local level that includes a plurality of pods, which may be end points in the hierarchy. The data may be stored at a source pod. The request may identify a designated level in the hierarchy at which to relocate the source data. A target pod within the distributed database system may be selected. The source…

DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURING A PROCESS BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS MONITORED BY A MOBILE DEVICE

Granted: May 13, 2021
Application Number: 20210141650
Disclosed are non-limiting examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for dynamically configuring a process associated with an application based on environmental characteristics monitored by a mobile device. In some implementations, the process includes stages and decision nodes. There is a configurable flow along a path defined by a subset of the stages controlled by a subset of the decision nodes. Contextual data is provided by the mobile device on which the…

CUSTOMIZABLE ANIMATIONS

Granted: May 6, 2021
Application Number: 20210132966
Disclosed herein are system, method, and device embodiments for implementing dynamic customizable animations. A multi-tenant service may configure a visual component of an application to present an animation based on a rule, generate a multi-tenant entity record defining the rule, and generate application code associated with the application. Further, the multi-tenant service may receive a request for animation information associated with the multi-tenant entity record, and send the…

RECIPIENT-BASED FILTERING IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING SYSTEM

Granted: May 6, 2021
Application Number: 20210136166
Implementations are described which provide for recipient-based filtering of an event that relates to a topic to which consumers are subscribed. Responsive to determining that an attribute of the event includes a set of one or more identifiers for intended recipients for the event, the event is delivered to consumers that correspond to the intended recipients. Alternatively, responsive to determining that the attribute of the event does not include a set of one or more identifiers for…

EVENT ORDERING BASED ON AN IDENTIFIER FOR A TRANSACTION

Granted: May 6, 2021
Application Number: 20210133181
Implementations store an event associated with a topic in a database to allow for the event to be transmitted in order with respect to other events associated with the topic which are stored in the database. A commit of a transaction is performed that includes inserting the event's payload in a record in a database object. After the commit, a field for the record is updated with an identifier of the commit. The identifier and identifiers of other commits of other transactions on the…

SELECTIVELY PUBLISHING AN EVENT RESPONSIVE TO AN OPERATION ON A DATABASE IN A TRANSACTION WHICH IS ROLLED BACK OR COMMITTED

Granted: May 6, 2021
Application Number: 20210133180
Implementations are described for selectively publishing an event responsive to an operation on a database in a transaction. Publishing the event is delayed or not delayed respectively, responsive to determining that a value of an attribute for the event indicates that publishing the event is to be delayed, or not to be delayed, until the transaction is rolled back or committed. If publishing the event is delayed, the event is published if the transaction is committed and discarded if…

VISUAL CONTEXT IN DATAFLOWS

Granted: May 6, 2021
Application Number: 20210132777
Disclosed herein are system, method, and device embodiments for implementing visual context in dataflows. A computing device may display a dataflow representation associated with a transformative process, receive selection of an individual node of the dataflow representation, and determine a visual context associated with the individual node based on a data transformation step associated with the individual node. Further, the computing device may determine a plurality of nodes associated…

TECHNOLOGIES FOR PREDICTING PERSONALIZED MESSAGE SEND TIMES

Granted: April 29, 2021
Application Number: 20210126885
Disclosed embodiments are related to send time optimization technologies for sending messages to users. The send time optimization technologies provide personalized recommendations for sending messages to individual subscribers taking into account the delay and/or lag between the send time and the time when a subscriber engages with a sent message. A machine learning (ML) approach is used to predict the optimal send time to send messages to individual subscribers for improving message…

DATA SORTING AND RATING SYSTEM

Granted: April 22, 2021
Application Number: 20210117937
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments providing a data sorting and rating system. An embodiment operates by detecting a user modification of a particular value of a sorted plurality of values of a column displayed in a visual interface including a sorting visual indicator indicating that the plurality of values are sorted. It is determined that the values are no longer sorted after the user modification. The sorting visual indicator is replaced…

DEFINITION OF A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE DASHBOARD CREATED WITH MANUALLY INPUT CODE AND USER SELECTIONS

Granted: April 22, 2021
Application Number: 20210117056
Methods and systems are described for creating and/or processing a definition for a dashboard with manually input code and user selections in a graphical user interface. In some implementations, user interface elements are displayed and selections from a user accepted. Responsive to the selections, definitions for one or more visualizations and datasources are automatically generated and displayed in a user interface element that accepts manually input customizations and code from the…

APPLICATION PROGRAMMER INTERFACE PLATFORM WITH DIRECT DATA CENTER ACCESS

Granted: April 15, 2021
Application Number: 20210112059
An application programming interface (API) platform accesses cloud-based software services in a cloud computing system. API requests used in the API platform include a tenant specific endpoint (TSE) that uses a unique tenant identifier and an API endpoint as a URL domain. The unique tenant identifier identifies a tenant associated with the API request and the API endpoint identifies one of the cloud-based software services. The combination of the unique tenant identifier and the API…

DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING DATA MIGRATION

Granted: April 8, 2021
Application Number: 20210103568
Migration results in specific action requests to move data from a source system instance to a target system instance. Migration may consume many resources. In an effort to monitor migration effects on source and/or target performance, one or more traffic lights are determined to monitor utilization of resources of the source and/or target. Based on the one or more traffic lights, migration is dynamically throttled. The one or more traffic light may be assigned a status based on how the…

DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING DATA MIGRATION

Granted: April 8, 2021
Application Number: 20210103567
Migration results in specific action requests to move data from a source system instance to a target system instance. Migration may consume many resources. In an effort to monitor migration effects on source and/or target performance, one or more traffic lights are determined to monitor utilization of resources of the source and/or target. Based on the one or more traffic lights, migration is dynamically throttled. The one or more traffic light may be assigned a status based on how the…

SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR LOCAL WEB COMPONENTS DEVELOPMENT WITHIN A CLOUD BASED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

Granted: April 1, 2021
Application Number: 20210096825
Resolving a dynamic request from a local web component rendered on a development server executing on a user client device. A cache is located in the user client device and is accessible to the development server. The development server receives a first request for information from the local web component via a web browser, intercepts the first request at a proxy override module and transmits the first request to a cloud computing service provider's server. The development server receives…

ACTIVATION POLICIES FOR WORKFLOWS

Granted: March 25, 2021
Application Number: 20210089351
Activation policies for workflows are described. Some implementations support receiving a definition of a workflow, including data defining an input set for the workflow and data defining activities and a flow of the activities for the workflow. The data includes an activation policy for at least a particular activity of the activities. An estimated operational outcome for the workflow and/or each of the activities is determined and displayed. Then data identifying edits to the…

ASYNCHRONOUS ROW TO OBJECT ENRICHMENT OF DATABASE CHANGE STREAMS

Granted: March 25, 2021
Application Number: 20210089556
A first copy of a database object may be constructed prior to applying a designated database update request to a first database. The database object may be represented by a plurality of database table rows in the first database, and the request may update one or more of the plurality of rows. The request may be applied to the first database to update the one or more of the plurality of rows in the first database. A second copy of the database object may be constructed after applying the…